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  1. snareman
    i,ve bolted foxes, feral cats, stoats, mink, little owls, rock doves, a wild ferret , a polecat, a couple of rats , and a wee mouse that came out and tucked itself up beside a fresh killed rabbit for warmth on a cold day in woodland .
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    so much for all the bull sh#t about flinging rabbit wires into a dung heap for two weeks to dull them and all the other old crap . bet woodga will make you skin them gary, and you will be carrying all the others tomorrow morning as well. ha ha.
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    a rabbit snare will hold them, by the way i thought you were learning to snare rabbits , i would concentrate on getting good at that first .
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    to save compressing soil on the washer type trigger on the mole traps , just take a pair of bolt cutters and cut at each side of the centre hole and the bottom drops out and you are now left with a couple of prongs , give them a wee file to smooth , and it works fine.by the way good clear pictures and info rolfe.
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    I have copies from source of the 'field tests' done on the DOC series of traps and they seem to be mustard on stoats - maybe there's not much else there to trap in NZ?? OTC what a chunk of steel to kill a stoat . the modified victor pro rat trap wipes them out in an instant , no wooden boxes and all the extra work involved ,
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    fried rice we have told you how to go about it already ,
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    moles carry some real big fleas on them, you could try them roasted along with the flesh, contact jamie oliver for a recipe .
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    these type of shop snares are pure shite , but you will always get some rank amateur who wants them , could be stripped and made into rat snares , burn the twines of them and scrap them , a horse and cart could not pull them shut .
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    well moley i,ll have to check out these new ones with the solway name stamped on them when they arrive as i was going to purchase some also , if they to have this gap then i will have to leave it , has no one contacted andrew the M D. from solway to investigate this problem , as i,m sure he would be interested and would get this fault rectified , the problem with trapping and snaring in this country is the people who seem to be advising the ministry , they may have a degree but that certainly does not make you a trapper , a lot of these people lack the many years of experience and don,t know a
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    geordie says the two of you are like a burst haggis.
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    that will be you hooked now stephen, remember the wee things i told you , there are perfect little beats on that run in the grass . stephen , in the second picture of that run running parallel to the fence , the rats will be jumping up and over the grass from beat to beat , you will need to set higher on this type of run .
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    that will be you hooked now stephen, remember the wee things i told you , there are perfect little beats on that run in the grass .
  13. snareman
    long nets, stop nets, peg snares , hoop snares,
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    the fenn trap may comply with the legislation, but they certainly don,t kill mink , and i,ve seen squirrels still alive in them, i don,t know who passed them , or the springers which are even weaker than the fenn trap , but they are not a humane trap in mink control and i have trapped hundreds over the last 30 years , especially when dog mink are ranging in weight from 4 lbs. to 6 1/2 lbs , the two best traps for these fellows are the 120 bodygrip, and the kania 2000 trap, i have never used the solway trap , but otc. says that they have a pretty strong spring stronger than a fenn trap , i will
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    Hi mate, as john b says, Woodga'll get back to you, he'll be busy splitting logs today. ian. yes ian, my logs , he,s a bad rascal that woodga.
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    if the hares get a fright at a gate d, wing , ive seen them go straight up and over the dry stone dykes in a flash . there is a real easy method to stop rabbits climbing up and over a rabbit mesh fence, simple , and very cost effective.
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    shame on you john, with the state of that trap.
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    woodga, your shed is in an appalling stait , and needs a damn good cleaning, its more like an abattoir , than a trappers shed .
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    The tealer looks a bit long mate, what length did you make it? The brass wire is basically three pieces 45" long folded over the eylet in the middle and spun. when I say 45" that's 22 1/2" finished size.,It looks the business though. a 9 1/2 inch. tealer will suit your needs very well out in normal grass, a longer tealer is more suitable when snaring in higher grass as it gives you the height , and still retains the striking curve , without elevation . i would suggest that you make five turns of wire around the tealer shaft, when tapping the tealer base into shape , you appear to be s
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    could be an otter ditch, ive seen them regular out on stones in the rivers .
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    i hope its a hand crank , he could do with the exercise :kiss: by the way moley he is puting those nice ash logs in the picture to wind me up, if he was gentleman at all he would be bringing them up here for me , also there is a lot people using these running poles to kill squirrels now , its a very efficient and cost effective method .
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    i remember you telling me about that guy , and what he wanted them for .
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    Chalky can you remember the drop boxes they put up the east side of that wood that you and i looked at a number years back , the rabbits had got used to climbing up and over the rabbit fence , and they just would not go near the boxes , and they also started to go out and feed along the roadside , to the north , and out the opposite side of the wood to the west side, the keeper phoned me saying that the rabbits were climbing over the fence , as he sat and watched them as he thought that i was pulling his leg when i had told him a week previously about it. the old rabbit is a great survivor .
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    listeria yes. orf . my local huntsman had orf, but he told me its from the dead stock he handles ? orf is contageous slaughterman pick it up from sheep , hares are also infected with red sores around the mouth area , i,ve seen this a few times over the years .
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    i had a fella phone me once wanting dried mole skins , he was offering 10 p each skin and he cut them in half and bagged them and they sell in the fishing shops for £1.30 for a half skin , so he was selling them at about 60 p per half skin , robbing b*****d, i didn,t sell him any maybe you could dry some out and contact a fishing magazine and place a small add and cut out the robbing middleman as these bast#rds always want the lions share all the time ,
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